Paradigms (Optimal and otherwise): A case for skepticism
Abstract This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on the status of inflectional paradigms in grammatical theory, with special reference to the theory of Optimal Paradigms (OP, McCarthy, 2005), a particular version of Paradigm Uniformity. OP proposes that certain systematic phonological differen...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780199219254.003.0002 2024-06-23T07:54:13+00:00 Paradigms (Optimal and otherwise): A case for skepticism Bobaljik, Jonathan David 2008 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199219254.003.0002 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/52225069/isbn-9780199219254-book-part-2.pdf en eng Oxford University PressOxford Inflectional Identity page 29-54 ISBN 9780199219254 9781383035902 book-chapter 2008 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199219254.003.0002 2024-06-11T04:17:08Z Abstract This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on the status of inflectional paradigms in grammatical theory, with special reference to the theory of Optimal Paradigms (OP, McCarthy, 2005), a particular version of Paradigm Uniformity. OP proposes that certain systematic phonological differences between nouns and verbs should be analyzed as arising from contingent facts about the individual affixes making up the nominal and verbal inflectional paradigms. I argue here that the Arabic data presented in OP does not support the OP model (as against, for example, cyclic alternatives) and that consideration of similar phenomena in Itelmen, a language with richer inflectional paradigms, suggests that it is morphosyntactic category, and not paradigmproperties, that determines phonological behavior. Book Part Itelmen Oxford University Press McCarthy ENVELOPE(66.543,66.543,-70.404,-70.404) 29 54 |
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Abstract This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on the status of inflectional paradigms in grammatical theory, with special reference to the theory of Optimal Paradigms (OP, McCarthy, 2005), a particular version of Paradigm Uniformity. OP proposes that certain systematic phonological differences between nouns and verbs should be analyzed as arising from contingent facts about the individual affixes making up the nominal and verbal inflectional paradigms. I argue here that the Arabic data presented in OP does not support the OP model (as against, for example, cyclic alternatives) and that consideration of similar phenomena in Itelmen, a language with richer inflectional paradigms, suggests that it is morphosyntactic category, and not paradigmproperties, that determines phonological behavior. |
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